The Life Story of Jimmy
The Life Story of Jimmy Jimmy’s life began surrounded by both love and complexity. He was the son of my late sister, Maguy, and from childhood, my parents adopted him as their own. In that way, Jimmy was not only my nephew and godson, but also my brother. He grew up in our parents’ home, a part of our daily lives and our hearts. Maguy, his mother, loved him deeply. In time, she married and had two other children. Jimmy sometimes stayed with her, but his roots remained with my parents, who raised him with devotion. He was family in every sense, bound by love in a family of five sisters and two brothers. The First Signs of Resentment But his life was not made easy. From the beginning, my eldest sister, Raymonde, the firstborn of our family, and her husband, Claudy, placed heavy burdens on him. I began to notice strange things around the summer of 1981, when Jimmy wasn’t even two years old. Something in the way they acted toward him wasn’t normal. I saw the sharpness in their voices, the ...